Spill reveals Obama's lack of executive experience

Washington Examiner ^ | 6-8-2010 | Byron York

[Danae]

In mid-February 2008, fresh from winning a bunch of Super Tuesday primaries, Barack Obama granted an interview to "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Croft. "When you sit down and you look at [your] resume," Croft said to Obama, "there's no executive experience, and in fact, correct if I'm wrong, the only thing that you've actually run was the Harvard Law Review."

"Well, I've run my Senate office, and I've run this campaign," Obama said.

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Obama ignored Palin's experience as governor of Alaska, which was considerably bigger than the Obama campaign. But his point was clear: If you're worried about my lack of my executive experience, look at my campaign. Running a first-rate campaign, Obama and his supporters argued, showed that Obama could run the federal government, even at its most testing moments. He could set goals, demand accountability, and, perhaps most importantly, bend the sprawling federal bureaucracy to his will.

(...) snip

"A few days before Obama won the White House, Bill Clinton joined him for a late-night rally in Kissimmee, Fla. Clinton, who became president after 12 years as a governor, told the crowd not to worry about Obama's lack of executive background. Given the brilliance of Obama's campaign, Clinton said -- and here the former president uncharacteristically mangled his words a bit -- a President Obama would be "the chief executor of good intentions as president."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Spill-reveals-Obama_s-lack-of-executive-experience-95819074.html#ixzz0qJ8LPHvb

[Danae]

This article is RIGHT ON THE MONEY. York absolutely NAILS this fastball right over center field and is outtathapark!

My response to the above snippet: Yea, Obama could hire the right people to run a campaign. Running a Nation is NOT like running a damn campaign. Obama has NO FRIGGIN IDEA of what he is doing. So he is just trying to look good doing it. He is an ABJECT FAILURE! Sarah Palin DID know how to run a State, she was doing it WHILE campaigning for VP!! Hello, if that isn't a universe of difference then I don't know what is.

Running anything this big is monumental, and if you don't even know how to set up a basic command structure for dealing with emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes, then BY GOD you have no idea what you are doing regarding anything!

Seriously, from an Emergency and Disaster Preparedness standpoint, this is an tragic example of how to fail miserably. And it isn't as if there aren't people who know how to set this stuff up successfully. I am learning it right now as a matter of fact, so I KNOW people know how to fix this. What's the problem then? NO ONE KNOWS WHO TO ASK! Its a redtape nightmare.

You think Sarah Palin would have handled this differently? You bet YOUR ASS (BARRY) she would have handled it better! SHE KNOWS HOW TO!

/rant

This is a great article! LOL York really does hit it out of the park!